Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Thu 27 July 2023

All of you is holy.
You are already more and less
Than whatever you can know.
Breathe out,

Touch in,
Let go.

~ John Welwood [source: Forget about Enlightenment Stanzas 9 to end]

THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

9:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
12:00 pm PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
1:00 pm MDT (eg Denver)
2:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
3:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
8:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
9:00 pm CEST (eg France)/9:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Friday
5:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
7:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link: https://www.ramdass.org/promises-and-pitfalls/

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Mon 24 July 2023

You’re not the limited, anxious person you think you are…really, you’re the very heart of compassion, completely aware, and fully capable of achieving the greatest good, not only for yourself, but for everyone and everything you can imagine.

~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Eric Swanson [source: The Joy of Living, p. 46]

MONDAY, JULY 24, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

9:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
12:00 pm PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
1:00 pm MDT (eg Denver)
2:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
3:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
8:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
9:00 pm CEST (eg France)/9:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Tuesday
5:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
7:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Shaku, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link #1: woman heart/Freepik
Image Link #2 by Bessi/Pixabay/Siblings

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sun 23 July 2023

With the utmost effort, I should check to see that the crazed elephant of my mind is not wandering off but is bound to the great pillar of thinking about dharma.

~ Shantideva [source: Acharya Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara, Chapter 5, translated by Stephen Batchelor]

SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The above topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

7:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
10:00 am PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
11:00 am MDT (eg Denver)
12:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
1:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
6:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
7:00 pm CEST (eg France)/7:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
8:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Monday
3:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
5:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Cathryn, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link: Kamchatka/Freepik/elephant

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Thu 20 July 2023

Open your heart to who you are, right now,
Not who you would like to be,
Not the saint you are striving to become,
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you.

~ John Welwood [source: Forget about Enlightenment Stanzas 5-8]

THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

9:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
12:00 pm PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
1:00 pm MDT (eg Denver)
2:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
3:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
8:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
9:00 pm CEST (eg France)/9:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Friday
5:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
7:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link: make-peace-with-your-unlived-life

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Mon 17 July 2023

The practice of mindfulness is coming back to the here and the now to be in touch deeply with ourselves, with life. We have to train ourselves in order to do this… We have to train ourselves to recognise that the conditions for happiness are already here.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh [source: No Death, No Fear, pg. 100]

MONDAY, JULY 17, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

9:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
12:00 pm PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
1:00 pm MDT (eg Denver)
2:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
3:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
8:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
9:00 pm CEST (eg France)/9:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Tuesday
5:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
7:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Janet, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link: fractalenlightenmen/thich-nhat-hanh

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sun 16 July 2023

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.

~ Pema Chodron [source: goodreads/Pima Chodron quotes]

SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The above topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

7:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
10:00 am PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
11:00 am MDT (eg Denver)
12:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
1:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
6:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
7:00 pm CEST (eg France)/7:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
8:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Monday
3:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
5:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Claudia, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link: Freepik/meditation space

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Thu 13 July 2023

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are,
And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones.

~ John Welwood [source: Forget about Enlightenment Stanzas 1-4]

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually, with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

9:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
12:00 pm PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
1:00 pm MDT (eg Denver)
2:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
3:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
8:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
9:00 pm CEST (eg France)/9:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Friday
5:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
7:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Nicole, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link: Wirestock/Freepik/feel

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Mon 10 July 2023

Suffering brings you to a land where no-one can find you. Yet when the human voice focuses in empathetic tenderness, it can find its way across any distance to the desolate heart of another’s pain. The healing voice becomes the inner presence of the friend, watchful and kind at the source.

~ John O’Donohue [source: Beauty, p. 77]

MONDAY, JULY 10, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

9:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
12:00 pm PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
1:00 pm MDT (eg Denver)
2:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
3:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
8:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
9:00 pm CEST (eg France)/9:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
10:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Tuesday
5:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
7:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Shaku, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image #1 by Drazen Zigic/Freepik/caring
Image #2 by Drazen Zigic/Freepik/People supporting

All are welcome.


Virtual Sit-and-Share Topic ~ Sun 9 July 2023

Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own.

~ Robert Tew [source: goodreads/Robert Tew quotes]

SUNDAY, JULY 9, 2023

No registration is required. The meeting link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4537777699

You can connect manually with Zoom meeting ID 453 777 7699 and passcode ‘5ps‘.

The above topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom at:

7:00 am HST (eg Honolulu, Hawaii)
10:00 am PDT (eg San Francisco/Vancouver)
11:00 am MDT (eg Denver)
12:00 pm CDT (eg Chicago)
1:00 pm EDT (eg New York/Tampa)
6:00 pm BST (eg Dublin/London)
7:00 pm CEST (eg France)/7:00 pm CAT (eg Botswana)
8:00 pm EAT (eg Kenya)
Monday
3:00 am AEST (eg Sydney)
5:00 am NZST (eg Auckland)

This meeting’s topic was chosen by Claudia, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.

Image Link: teksomolika/Freepik/barefoot

All are welcome.